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Computer History Quiz

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Punched card weaving pattern

a)

Hopper

b)

Kurtz

c)

Ada Byron

d)

Jacquard

2.

COBOL, the business language

a)

Mauchly

b)

Hopper

c)

Hollerith

d)

Aiken

3.

first electronic computer

a)

Mauchly

b)

Liebnitz

c)

Backus

d)

Aiken

4.

arithmetic machine

a)

Pascal

b)

Jacquard

c)

Eckert

d)

Kemeny

5.

slide rule

a)

Oughtred

b)

Hollerith

c)

Napier

d)

Aiken

6.

wrote BASIC language

a)

Kurtz

b)

Kemeny

c)

Eckert

d)

Babbage

7.

multiplication rods

a)

Hopper

b)

Kurtz

c)

Liebnitz

d)

Napier

8.

80-column punched card

a)

Ada Byron

b)

Hollerith

c)

Hopper

d)

Jacquard

9.

EDVAC, storing instructions in memory

a)

Von Neumann

b)

Oughtred

c)

Backus

d)

UNIVAC

10.

the first programmer

a)

Ava Byron

b)

UNIVAC

c)

Oughtred

d)

Hopper

11.

first commercial computer, 1951

a)

UNIVAC

b)

Backus

c)

Kurtz

d)

Eckert

12.

wheel to add, subtract, multiply, and divide

a)

Liebnitz

b)

Babbage

c)

Hopper

d)

Napier

13.

Mark I inventor

a)

Aiken

b)

Kurtz

c)

Mauchly

d)

Pascal

14.

ENIAC, 18,000 vacuum tubes!

a)

Eckert

b)

Kemeny

c)

Babbage

d)

Napier

15.

analytical engine

a)

Mauchly

b)

Liebnitz

c)

Ava Byron

d)

Babbage

16.

FORTRAN language

a)

Backus

b)

Babbage

c)

UNIVAC

d)

Napier